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2,502 baptisms from the beginning of the first register in 1581 to the end of 1650
235 marriages from the beginning of the first register in 1563 to the end of 1601
889 burials from the beginning of the first register in 1581 to the end of 1600
There are no baptisms in the register for these periods: March 1582 to August 1584, 4 March 1591 to 19 Dec 1591, June 1592-Jan 1593, Oct 1593-Feb 1596, May 1596-Sep 1597, Mar 1622-Jan 1624, Sep 1640-Aug 1642, Feb 1644-Apr 1645, Dec 1645-Jun e 1647, and Oct 1647-May 1648. There are no marriages for these periods: Jan 1568 to May 1581, Nov 1585 to Nov 1588, Dec 1592 to Nov 1593, and May 1596 to May 1601. There are no burials from March 1594 to the end of 1595, and all the burials in 1596 are undated and about a dozen are repeated in July 1597, which is odd.